Word: spares
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seed and the state's far-flung highway system is in disrepair. Despite such cutbacks, a deficit of at least $75 million in this fiscal year's state budget looks likely. But forced austerity is not universal. California's state legislators have seen fit to spare one group from the draconian reductions: themselves. While the expenditures in real dollars on social services have decreased, the money for the legislature has doubled since 1975 and ballooned by a third this year alone. California's assemblymen and senators spend more on their own care and feeding than lawmakers...
...bright Christmas star; Why weep you muse? What tales do you tell? Do give us your news 'fore the midnight bell. His brow furrowed deep, his countenance dour, The Christmas muse gave us a look more than sour. "I'll tell you my story of Christmas '81, And spare you the merriment, feasting and pun. Our journey begins in D.C.--Washington, (Where Santa brings coal more often than fun) The New Right announced all the bureaus were messed-up, And told the poor children: "For veggies, eat ketchup;" "But how," we asked, "did that hurt our Yuletide" "Where were...
...PURITANISM runs deep at Harvard. The University, we are reminded often, was first founded as a training school for young ministers. Here they would come to study liturgy and oratory, learning how to guide souls in righteousness and lead back the heretic and the remiss. Here, shivering in spare wood-paneled dorms and dining rooms, they would combat the freezing snow and wind outside with the fires of religious devotion they hoped to kindle...
These natural affinities are only part of what make this spare, direct production of The Crucible so effective. The South House dramatists seem to have everything on their side: the artistry of Miller's script, which mingles not-too-oblique political comment (the play was written during the McCarthy era) with personal and emotional drama; the New England blizzard outdoors, which highlights the "crucible" heat of passions boiling inside these outwardly contained, black-coated Puritan characters; the deeper cold emanating these days from Washington, making Miller's political preoccupations seem anything but remote; even the oak-panelled Cabot Living Room...
...feeling than competition. Stores and restaurants like Brigham's and Mug'n Muffin--which Higgins feels "complement" rather than harm his business--send him emergency messengers when they run out of supplies. When Brigham's needs milk in midafternoon, Higgins shrugs and sells a harried employee all he can spare, about 45 half-gallon cartons. "In ten minutes someone will come in and be bummed out because there's no cream," he predicts, "but what...